Laziz has been moved to a sanctuary in South Africa (Picture: Four Paws/Facebook)

A Bengal tiger has been rescued by activists from a zoo labelled ‘the worst in the world’.

The nine-year-old tiger, named Laziz, was living in a small cage at the Khan Younis zoo in Gaza alongside the stuffed corpse of another tiger.

The Four Paws charity launched a rescue effort after it discovered that the zoo was stuffing animals that had died from stress, disease and starvation, and displaying them at the zoo. Laziz was taken into a wooden crate and taken by plane to the Lionsrock Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa.

At Lionsrock, Laziz will have a 10,000-square-metre enclosure where he can swim and climb, said Amir Khalil, who led the mission for Four Paws.

‘Laziz is in good condition apart from a scratch on one side of his face, which comes from the crate,’ said Marina Strydom, a vet at Lionsrock.

Lionsrock is home to around 90 big cats that have all been rescued from other parts of the world.

Conditions in Gaza, which is home to around 1.8million people, have become steadily worse since 2007, when Hamas took control of the region and prompted a blockade by Egypt and Israel.